{"product_id":"9781925095821","title":"The Chantic Bird: Text Classics","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e is the confession of a teenage anarchist, who combines a contempt for contemporary society with a great tenderness and warmth for his younger siblings and for Bee, the girl who looks after them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first of David Ireland's masterful novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e contains the same characteristic indictment of the bovine mindlessness of collective humanity, and the home-owning wage slaves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e This edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e comes with a new introduction by Geordie Williamson. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1927 in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time writer. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Chantic Bird\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1968. In the next decade he published five further novels, three of which won the Miles Franklin Award: \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Industrial Prisoner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Woman of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e. David Ireland was made a member of the Order of Australia in 1981. In 1985 he received the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for his novel \u003ci\u003eArchimedes and the Seagull\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'One of the most remarkable novels - first, fifth or fifteenth - to appear on the scene for many a long day...Compassionate and pitiless, savage and sad, ironic and naive, horrifying and farcical.' \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Gloriously and savagely comic.' \u003ci\u003eAdelaide Advertiser\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137516388592,"sku":"9781925095821","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925095821_p0.jpg?v=1763633225","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925095821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}